Re: unary mapper system redesigned + a few questions

[Judd Storrs]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
> The automatic narrowing is a feature of Matlab. Dropping the narrowing
> entirely is something that IMHO wants a separate discussion. All that I'm
> saying is that if the automatic narrowing is done, constraining it to
> positive zeros makes little sense.

Hmm. I didn't realize this was the case, but in Matlab it isn't really
that objectionable because the real and imaginary components are
stored separately. e.g. tossing or adding an imaginary component
doesn't require copying. In octave they are interleaved thus copies
are mandatory?


--judd